GO & NO: A bus operates yesterday before an inspector arrived and the Chinatown business turned away customers (below).

(Photos: William Farrington)

A violation-racked Chinatown bus company continued to defy a federal shutdown order yesterday until an inspector showed up at their downtown depot.

Double Happyness Travel buses were running throughout the morning, arriving and leaving on time from their stops on East Broadway and West 34th Street.

“We are running,” said Lim Jin, who worked the counter at the downtown Double Happyness location.

The company was ordered to close up operations after the feds found egregious safety violations, including falsified driver logs and improper inspections and repair work.

But Double Happyness didn’t halt service yesterday until a federal safety inspector showed up around 10 a.m. and examined the paperwork at New Everyday Bus, which shares the same pick-up and drop-off spots.

Apparently spooked by the visit, Double Happyness quickly curtailed bus service and issued refunds to dozens of waiting passengers.

When asked about the shut-down order, Jin said that the company planned on suing the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, which regulates interstate bus service.

But the order specifically states that Double Happyness — which at times spells its name with an “i” instead of a “y” — must close down even if it tries to fight the ruling.

The company is not allowed to lease other buses or continue service in any way under the ruling, which found that Double Happyness operated under a “management philosophy indifferent to . . . safety.”

No passengers who arrived for Double Happyness buses knew about the shutdown order — and most didn’t care.

“We’ve complained to management before because the driver was talking the whole time,” said the 55-year-old Queens man. “They did nothing.”

In the past few years, Double Happyness racked up hundreds of safety violations, including doctoring driver’s logs that track how many hours are worked and hiring staffers without verifying drug-test results.

New Everyday Travel was not ordered to shut down but also has a poor safety rating. It has racked up “serious violations” in unsafe driving, fatigued driving and driver fitness in the past 12 months, according to FMCSA records.